Arizona weekly citizen., 1887-11-12


 were then, as well as now, well known.
 The evidences of their crimes were to be
 found in whitened skeletons in every
 mountain valley. Yet they kueg there
 was no punishmrnt for them, and they
 were irse Co start B new raid of murder at will. finally they were induced to 70 upon a reservation larger than the state Of Conneucui, of rugged mountains,
 where, armed to the teeth, with the most improved and deadly SsapOne, and
 mounted on horses used to the noun
 tRins, they have remained under slight restraint, and fed and cared for by the i government. They have never been conquered. Have never been whipped. | The believe they have been victorious.
 They think the United States is afr sld of ! them. They have killed a thousand whites to tbe number of Apaches that
 have been killed. From thIs reservation | they have constantly sent out excur- sIons ot iaarauders. h May, 1885, the gOTd which sent cold chill. wherever heard, went cut, that ':he Indians have broken out asai0," 1t soon WAS made | known thst Geronimo, one of the mean | est, mos; cruel, most bioodthIFsty, mos: ! coWafdly If 5ssassius ever vent unhung, with NRichez, son of C. Cchise, late chief | ot the ChiracshuG Apachts, and Chihus- hua, a chie. of the Warm Spring Aps- ! caeF, very gbis 6Rt cruel murderer,
 had gone upcn the waT-psth. with some ! huadred follower. This raid was | through Gfah0n and CochIse counties, s2d lhe easterh part of Pima County, 1 Arizona, and ID Grant county, New Mex ! leo. Every where their trail could be 1 friioTed hy he oGroasse5 of horses and cattle killed, Ttey spread terror and | devastation. RInches were deserted,
 mined 'ssre abandoned; prospectOrs left l iEo mountains and came rushing into | the town for safety. The number of oit- ] lZ-Bs killed ID a few months vas over 1 two hundred; every one assasEinated ! from an ambush without proyocsslon or ] va:E'Gg. All bGsIness was brought to 6
 sis1dstIll. Every enterprise wac stopped. 1 Daily the Eew5 came of some ranch ! TSiGed and one or two or three citizens 1 murdered. In this audience ] csn see
 many mcurners from the hands of these | b!oodthirsty ieuGs, ID this raid. Five l thOGsEna soldiers, some four hundred ! scouts, and as many citizen volunteers
 started n the long chase, over thousands e miles of rugged mountains. O1ce, It 1 seemed, they were about Co come in, and a part did SO; but the Wily old murderer Geronimo, got suspicion that be was
 not t1 so back Co the reservation, to be
 turned loose and led Sy the government
 5s before, bl. that Tetribuiior, dire and
 certain, aung over him for his countless
 c.iai.s, escaped again to tLe rocks, with
 b part O. the TeDHgiles. Gnd the msd chase gent oa. Millions of dollars were spent. Mere millions were lost t tEe people of th;s Territory
 directly Bnd indirectly. In May,
 ISSj, GeEeri.l Niles took command oi
 tiis department, and his strong hand
 and yIEoToUs pU!icy was felt every where.
 The iIail was kept hOf. Too hot for many depredstions. Once they broke
 through iato the Santa Cruz, where they
 lad not been for years before, and spgeaf devastation for a Whi.e. Then
 thcy went on, over mountain, across Val . | Icy, smoag sharp rocks aud p.ickly cEc-
 tn; the soldiers tOOtsCre, weary and tuugry, pursuec, following these co- votes with unrelentlDg teERcity. Fests Of endurance, worthy the days of chiysl- ", we're performed. Finally on Sepism- [ ben 5.h the chase was ended. IEe ln- diGas surrendered. General Niles with , Geronimo aud Na:chez with hlLa, came ! uu Co Fort Bowie with bis prisoners. ' Tho others were brought ID and were Q hurried of, cut Of the terutory. started to one ot the Forts O. Florida. Entici. patirg these results, the General had sl- D ready gathered together the whole tribe of Chiricshus Apgches on the reservs- , iloD, and had sent them forward. This , WAS dnpe not without disagreements, but . the President stood by the successful ] conmander in the field, sud at lsst the 3 most deadly of of all the tribes of these I deadly Apsches, Was out ot the country } away from the mountains which had P been made historic for the ages, oy th' E raids of their ancestors, away from tn' D | land whcss every rock. and peak, anS n mountain spring and water hCle, was HI : Invitation 10 him to emulate the crime of his fathers; away from tbe peoplt So whose proIeriy Ee had destroyed; who's ! homes be he'd desolated: whose lands h i had lad wss:e; and there let him remain Q where his red hand hangs powerless b. h hls side. O. what swelling sigh of re ,- lief went up from this people, aud thel vhal aB outpourIDg of joy. In passing l. lei me meet Q islander which has Rou f out against this people. Would to Go' e had voice to reach wherever it ha | gone. It IS sHid that these Indian raid | had been provoked by wrongs upo r them by the renegade whites. There ,. not the shadow ot fact to found I a mon. r. has been Y , lot to have had s aIds observation Of crimes and the crin i! insl classes, and l say emphgticatly l that there is no portion of the Unite a States where there is less of crime, wher Y person end property are safer and wher : there are fewer professional crlmInal ,s ,hap in ATizoaa. Oi ;he crimes commit q ted here, & very large per ceDt are Q .y uor,-residsnts; outlaws and escapes fToI r l other ju.isdiciiocs. In one term C n Court. of over twenty incicted, not on ,f Ind been in the territory ninety day fl be;ore arrest. Is this city of eight c Ia te, thousand people, for half t5e yes l. ,vsry body sleeps out doors md lock "a are rarely turned, Yet We have no bu at glarias, few, very few. lsrcenies, snes .n thIeves, pick pockets snd embeZzlemen' l. and thoee crimes which indicate grei ,a .nrDitude and habit of crime, sre rar' 'n Alost of the crimes ere those whic I arlse from violent quarrels or anger, sn If while cften serious, indicate far less ( r- criminal iretinct and moral ooliqui' rs than those mentioned. The records !, inc Cour.s will bear this out. No whel ,e 6o you find more of intelligence, mo- |, ra=nect for law and better cltlzenshi "a then here. The tee!IDR for, and q "a tre ttmapt of the IndiRrs. is ius'. Vii If .be Papaeos, Pimas and other friend Ia I1dians the whites have ever lived n. tSs mos, pleasant and peaceiul relation ,n tCo vhite man iu the mountains vi ea r-onll nrt share his cspteen or his "srul Tn ,g;,h any o.them. They have been q ia good samaritans ot the desert, and mal 's 2 tbirsty and hungry wauderer, owes ! - I,s.. 70 tIoir kindly care. No citizen